UW Bioengineering is proud of all our faculty, staff and students, and the many awards they earn for their work in teaching, mentoring and improving lives through bioengineering research and innovations.
Faculty Award Highlights
- 29 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellows
- 13 members of the Washington State Academy of Sciences
- 14 past and current UW CoMotion Presidential Innovation Fellows
- Six members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Six AAAS Fellows
- Five National Academy of Inventors Fellows
Student Award Highlights
- 18 current National Science Foundation Fellows
- Four Fulbright Student Fellows, one Gates Cambridge Scholar, one Rhodes Scholar, one Luce Scholar, and nine Goldwater Scholars as of 2020
- 8 Levinson Emerging Scholar awards
- Multiple awards from NASA Space Grant
- Multiple awards in business plan competitions from UW Foster School of Business
- Fellowships from American Heart Association and Washington Research Foundation
- More Amgen Scholars than any other UW department; 31 since 2007
- Over 400 Mary Gates Scholarships
Featured Awards and Recognition
Three UW Bioengineering Professors elected to join the Washington State Academy of Sciences
Three UW BioE faculty members have been selected to join the Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS): Valerie Daggett, Paul Kinahan and Ruikang Wang. T
HHMI Gilliam Fellowship highlights the enduring power of mentorship
Sydney Floryanzia, Ph.D. student, and Elizabeth Nance, an associate professor, have been recognized as a 2024 HHMI Gilliam Fellowship student-advisor pair.
Amy Orsborn receives prestigious NSF CAREER award
Amy Orsborn, has received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to support her research in sensorimotor neural interfaces.
Four Bioengineering professors receive WRF grant for pioneering life-science projects
UW BioE faculty have been awarded major new grant funding by the WRF. Of the six UW teams awarded the grant, four are from UW Bioengineering.
Ayokunle Olanrewaju receives prestigious Beckman Young Investigator Award
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation awarded UW BioE and ME Assistant Professor Ayokunle (Ayo) Olanrewaju with the Beckman Young Investigator Award.
NIH provides major support to CRBM for advancing reproducible biomedical modeling
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has committed a multi-million-dollar grant to support the CRBM at the University of Washington.